
ARTrageous
Summer Camps for Kids (9am - noon)
To
enroll, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispo
Museum of Art.
Each session costs $95 for members, $115 for
non-members. All materials are provided. $5 sibling discount for
more that one family member enrolled during the same session. Join
the San Luis Obispo Museum
of Art for $45 and the whole family saves
on classes and events for one year. Class size is limited and not
guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available.
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Monday,
July 12- Friday, July 16
Session 3 |
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5 to 6
year olds
What's Around You?
teaching artist Susan Connors
Make drawings of motion using dashes, squiggles, zigzags along
with thick, short or erased lines. Be inspired by what you see
and feel around you.
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Creative Games
teaching artist Lori Wolf
Take your lines for a walk, let your shapes fall where they may,
watch your sculptures grow and see your colors flow. Explore creative
games and new experiences in art.
Reg. #: July
3-A
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7 to 8
year olds
From Here to There
teaching artist Brian Williams
Begin with a series of related thumbnail sketches to create slow
changes. Turn your ideas into a fully realized drawing or mixed
media statement.
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Capture What You See
teaching artist Susan Connors
Its all about using lines. Create paintings of motion using
dashes, squiggles, zigzags along with thick, short or etched lines.
Be inspired by what you see and feel.
Reg. #: July 3-B
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9 to 12
year olds
Play the Dada Games
teaching artist Lori Wolf
Use traditional and non-traditional media to explore a world never
seen. Let the textures, shapes, line and colors of materials guide
your 2-D and 3-D creativity.
...after the break
From Here to There
teaching artist Brian Williams
Begin with a series of related thumbnail sketches to create slow
changes. Turn your ideas into a fully realized drawing, painting
or mixed media statement.
Reg. #: July 3-C
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Monday,
July 19- Friday, July 23
Session 4 |
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5 to 6
year olds
Cloth and Sculpture Art
eaching artist Lori Wolf
Learn about the work of Alison Saar and create your original,
inspired found art sculpture. Use cloth, threads, yarns in layers.
Be inspired by the work of Faith Ringold.
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Paint and Collage
teaching artist Susan Connors
Learn about the bright layered work of Jacob Lawrence and Romare
Beardon. Combine paint, pastels, pencils to make collages that
tell us your own story.
Reg. #: July
4-A
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7 to 8
year olds
Family Life in Art
teaching artist Susan Connors
Create mixed media collages telling a story about your family.
Learn about the bright layered work of Jacob Lawrence and Romare
Beardon.
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African-American Rhythms
teaching artist Brian Williams
Emphasize rhythm of sounds in art. Create drawings and paintings
with layers of lines, shapes, colors that echo the beat of the
blues and jazz.
Reg. #: July 4-B
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9 to 12
year olds
African-American Rhythms
teaching artist Brian Williams
Emphasize rhythm of sounds in art. Create drawings and paintings
with layers of lines,
shapes, colors that echo the beat of the blues and jazz.
...after the break
Afro-American Inspired Creations
teaching artist Lori Wolf
Work with found objects and fiber art materials. Find inspiration
in the work of Alison Saar and Faith Ringold.
Reg. #: July 4-C
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Monday,
August 2- Friday, August 6
Session 5 |
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5 to 6
year olds
Putting Nature in Art
teaching artist Susan Connors
Be inspired by nature! Use natural forms of leaves, twigs, shells,
moss and feathers to make your own sculptures. Put contrast, balance
and textures together for this fun art form!
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Drawing is Basic
teaching artist Madeline Simonaro
Plan your drawings from line through shapes, textures and space.
Combine these elements with colors for original, personal pictures.
Drawing is fun!
Reg. #: Aug
5-A
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7 to 8
year olds
Collage and Assemblage
teaching artist Julie Steyer
Explore the range of 2-D and 3-D collage. Create recycled art
assemblage using the elements and principles of art. Its
colors, texture, and balanced shapes and lines that combine for
your own piece of art.
...after the break
Putting Nature in Art
teaching artist Susan Connors
Be inspired by nature! Use natural forms of leaves, twigs, shells,
moss and feathers to make original sculptures. Use contrast, balance
and textures to create your art!
Reg. #: Aug 5-B
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9 to 12
year olds
New Vision of Color
teaching artist Madeline Simonaro Emphasize the dynamics of
color in art. Mix a palette of many values, tones and tints. Change
patterns and shapes into designs inspired by what you see around
you.
...after the break
Collage and Assemblage
teaching artist Julie Steyer
Explore the wide range of 2-D and 3-D collage. Create recycled
art assemblage using the elements and principles of art. Its
colors, texture, and balanced shapes and lines that combine for
a unique piece of art!
Reg. #: Aug 5-C
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Monday,
August 9- Friday, August 13
Session 6 |
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5 to 6
year olds
Be a Sculptor!
teaching artist Brian Williams
Be a 3-D artist and make some sculpture. Found art materials will
be used to form the lines and shapes of your creativity. Big or
small, short or tallits all artistic fun!
...after the break
Where the Wild Things Live
teaching artist Madeline Simonaro
Use drawing and painting to create animal forms. Let the background
tell us where they live! Be an artist, work large!
Reg. #: Aug
6-A
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7
to 8 year olds
Look, See, Create
teaching artist Jamie Bruzenak
Emphasize observation when planning your drawings. Work with pencil,
colored pencil, markers and ink to express contour lines with originality
and creativity.
...after the break
Watercolor Basics
teaching artist Brian Williams
Explore watercolor techniques to use in realistic and abstract painting.
Create colorful artworks with this wet and transparent medium based
on your own observation and imagination.
Reg. #: Aug 6-B |
9
to 12 year olds
Reworkign the Drawing Process
teaching artist Madeline Simonaro
Experience the challenge of redrawing with ink, charcoal, black
and white tempera. Erase, draw back into, and cut up to make your
reassembled art statement.
...after the break
Look, See, Create
teaching artist Jamie Bruzenak
Create a sculptural form to use for
observation and planning your paintings. Emphasis will be on originality
and creative expression. Explore large format painting with acrylics.
Reg. #: Aug 6-C |
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ARTrageous
Summer Camps for Teens (1 - 4pm)
To
enroll, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis
Obispo Museum of Art.
Each session
costs $95 for members, $115 for non-members. All materials are
provided. $5 sibling discount for more that one family member
enrolled during the same session. Join the San Luis Obispo Museum
of Art for $45 and the whole family saves on classes and events
for one year. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment
is received. Scholarships are available. To enroll in Children's
Camps, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispo
Museum of Art.
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SESSION
3
JULY 12 - 16
WATERCOLOR IN DEPTH
with teaching artist Marianne Nucci
Explore a wide variety of watercolor techniques. Broaden and deepen
your ability to capture the expression of people, places and things
using this delightful wet medium. Marianne Nucci received her
MFA from Otis Art Institute and is a lifetime artist working in
many mediums. She has taught for 27 years in the Cuesta College
art department.
Reg. #: TEEN-3
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Session
4
JULY 19 - 23
OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING
with teaching artist Nixson Borah
Emphasize your capacity to create expressive and accurate drawings.
Focus will be on learning contour and perspective drawing using
the figure and environment as subject matter. Both black, white
and color art materials will be used. Nixson Borah, professor
emeritus from Fullerton College in Orange
County, has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums and is
included in private collections on both coasts. His wide range
or expertise includes drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture,
and photography.
Reg. #: TEEN-4
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Session
5
AUGUST 2 - 6
PAINTING EXPLORATION
with teaching artist Deborah Veldkamp
Find your unique talent for expressing ideas in painting. Explore
a broad use of acrylic paints on canvas and paper. One session
will focus on composition with a human figure. Your individual
creativity
is encouraged in this class. Deborah Veldkamp, a landscape, portrait
and figure painter, began her
studies with classical painter Peter Blos in the San Francisco
area. She continued her studies at the Art
Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California College of
Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and at Long Beach State University.
She has exhibited widely on the West Coast and Europe.
Reg. #: TEEN-5
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Session
6
AUGUST 9 - 13
ART OF THE BOX
with teaching artist Julie Steyer
Explore the symbols of the box. Identify themes and ideas included
in an inside/outside box in the style of Joseph Cornell. Both
2-D and 3-D materials will be used to create visual poetry from
the commonplace. Julie Steyer, a mixed media artist exploring
colored pencil, watercolor, collage and acrylic, majored in art
at UC Santa Cruz. Julie has taught youth and adults for 20 years
and is
currently exploring mixed media collage and assemblage.
Reg. #: TEEN-6
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Due to school
district budget cuts there will be no summer art camps in Paso Robles
in 2010
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AFTER SCHOOL ART
CLASSES at Monarch Grove Elementary. For 5 to 12 year olds. All materials
are provided. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment
is received. Scholarships are available. Download
application form.
Watch
for After School Class schedule starting September 2010
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AFTER SCHOOL ART
CLASSES will held at Ocean View Elementary School. All materials are
provided. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is
received. Scholarships are available. Download
Winter 2010 schedule and application form.
Watch
for After School Class schedule starting September 2010
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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES
at San Gabriel Elementary School. Tuesdays, 3 to 4:30 pm. $44 enrollment
fee per month. All materials provided. Scholarships available.
Visa and MasterCard accepted.
No
classes scheduled at this time.
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SUMMER
ART CAMPS
Three summer Art Camp sessions for children 6-9 years old and 10-14
years old are offered at the Old Grammar School, 9 to noon Monday
through Thursday. To enroll, download
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Session
1
June 14 - 17
6
to 9 year olds
Course CAM1A
Drawing & Painting With Nature
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Make your own sketchbook for saving your ideas. Feel and observe
natural and manmade objects, drawing the textures you see and
feel. Use your drawn textures for abstract painting.
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and after a break
All About Texture!
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Create your personal sketchbook for your creative ideas and observations.
Explore relief in nature through implied texture rubbings, real
texture collage and handmade clay tiles.
10 to 14
year olds
Course CAM1B
All About Texture!
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Create your personal sketchbook for your creative ideas and observations.
Explore relief in nature through implied texture
rubbings, real texture collage and
handmade clay tiles.
and after a break
Drawing & Painting With Nature
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Save your ideas in your sketchbook. Feel and observe natural and
manmade objects, drawing the textures you see and feel. Use your
drawn textures for abstract painting.
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Session
2
June 21 - 24
6
to 9 year olds
Course CAM2A
Art in Motion
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Discover the 3-D world of mobiles. Use natural and drawn images
in your kinetic sculptures. Create balance and movement in your
original artwork.
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and after a break
Print, Print, Printmaking!
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Experience various ways to create prints rubbings, collagraphs,
intaglio and imprints with actual objects. Printmaking is fun
2-D art making!
10 to 14 year olds
Course CAM2B
Print, Print, Printmaking!
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Experience various ways to create prints - rubbings, collagraphs,
intaglio and imprints with actual objects. Printmaking is fun
2-D art making!
and after a break
Stable and Mobile Sculptures
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Use natural and drawn images in your stabile and kinetic sculptures.
Create balance and movement as you work on all sides of your original
artwork.
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Session
3
June 28 - July 1
6
to 9 year olds
Course CAM3A
What's Underwater?
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Work on an artistic theme. Create drawings, paintings, prints
to incorporate in our large underwater mural. Imaginative artists
at work on our underwater environment!
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and after a break
Exploring the Ocean Depths
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Create divers, mermaids and swimmers to join the fish and plants
of the sea. Combine drawings and painting with collage to make
the underwater scene come alive!
10 to 14 year olds
Course CAM3B
Exploring the Ocean Depths
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Create divers, mermaids and swimmers to join the fish and plants
of the sea. Combine drawings and painting with collage to make
the underwater scene come alive! Make a splash with your artwork.
and after a break
What's Underwater?
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Work on an artistic theme. Create drawings, paintings, prints
to incorporate in our large underwater mural. Imaginative artists
at work on our underwater environment!
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Unless otherwise stated, all classes are taught in the Museums
classroom at 1010 Broad Street, on the west end of the Mission Plaza,
San Luis Obispo. To enroll: Call 805-543-8562 ext. 14 or fax 805-543-4518
or e-mail office@sloartcenter.org. Full payment is required at time
of enrollment. Visa and Master Card are accepted. Mail check payable
to Museum of Art, PO Box 813, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406.
Refund Policy: The enrollment fee will be refunded or transferred to
another workshop if requested at least five days before class starts.
A 10% service fee will be charged. No refunds are possible after deadline
has passed. If class is cancelled, the entire enrollment fee will be
refunded.
Drop-In Watercolor Classes
with Chris Berdoll
every Saturday in July and August, 2010, 9 11 am
$12 members, $15 nonmembers
(includes supplies)
All levels of painters will enjoy Chris Berdolls logical approach.
He is an expert guide in an environment that is efficient, rewarding
and liberating. Like the American masters who influenced him. He loves
to give his students the opportunity to learn what watercolor can do.
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Reductive Woodblock Printmaking
with Nick Spohrer
July 17 thru 19, 2010, 94 daily
$200 members, $225 nonmembers
Intermediate to experienced printmakers will investigate reductive woodblock
printing techniques. Class will cover hand carving, oil-based inks,
modifiers, hand printing, etching press, safe use of tools and cleanup.
Nick Spohrer is a professor of printmaking and two-dimensional design
at Fresno City College. Material list will be provided.
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Variations on a Theme: Creating a Series Through Experimentation
with David Limrite
July 2628, 2010 9 am4 pm
$225 members, $250 nonmembers
For intermediate and advanced students. Using mixed media, Mr. Limrite
will assist you in creating three works that contain a central theme
and allow for an in-depth exploration on the subject of your choice.
Mr. Limrite is known for creating works of dramatic depth and cathartic
expressionism. You will be asked to conceive of new ways of presenting
your work. As the Art Director in the Editorial Department at the Los
Angeles Herald Examiner he saw the dramatic impact of tragic pictorial
imagery and used this emotional and dramatic knowledge in his own drawings.
Mr. Limrite is currently the Director of Education at Brentwood Art
Center.
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Language and Essentials of Watercolor
with Robert Reynolds
Tuesday through Thursday,
September 7, 8, 9, 2010, 94 pm
$275 members, $300 nonmembers
This three-day workshop is designed especially for the just getting
started or the experienced beginner, who would like
to gain a better control and understanding of the medium of transparent
watercolor. Exercises in wet-into-wet, graduated and indirect washes,
and brush calligraphy will be explored. Also, creating various kinds
of texture, resist methods and acquiring a better understanding of liquid
masking procedures will be instructed. The three-day indoor class is
divided into six lessons, each being an important aspect of the art
of utilizing transparent watercolor. Learning these basic watercolor
techniques will help the student to progress to advance levels with
greater understanding and ease. On Thursday, everyone will create a
finished painting. Orientation with Mr. Reynolds on August 11, 5 7
pm is included.
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Learn to Street Paint!
with Lury Norris
I Madonnari Weekend
September 11 and 12, 2010, 104
$150 members, $175 nonmembers
Learn the skills and confidence to do street painting. Working in pairs
you will map out your images and learn the techniques to finish your
designs.
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Beginning Fused Glass
with Larry Le Brane
Saturdays, August 7, 14, 21, 2010, 14 pm
$120, includes $20 glass materials
Join mixed-media glass artist Larry Le Brane for three fun filled Saturdays.
Learn fundamental skills to create fused-glass objects and artwork.
Students with all skill levels are encouraged to attend. To register,
please e-mail larron4@charter.net or call 528-8791.
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Multimedia Figure Drawing
with Bill Buchman
October 2930, 2010, 9 am4 pm
$250 members, $275 nonmembers
This 3-day workshop offers rich resources to experienced or beginning
artists looking for new and inspiring ways to draw. Working from a live
model you will learn both new and traditional drawing techniques through
simple, understandable and practical exercises. As you learn how to
draw the figure with courage, freshness and freedom a world of new artistic
possibilities will open up. Sponsored by Savoir Faire, all art supplies
are provided, except your paper.
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Loose Action Oil Painting
with Robert Burridge
November 57, 2010, 9 am4 pm
$315 members, $365 nonmembers
Oil on canvas, with an emphasis on Abstract Expressionism powered by
left brain thinking and free wheeling techniques. All learning levels
are welcome.
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Life Drawing
Wednesdays, 9 to noon
and 6:309:30 pm
$10 members, $12 nonmember
People with all levels of drawing skill are welcome. A model is provided
along with tables and some easels.
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In A Dream
July
12, 7 pm
Directed by Jeremiah Zagar, 2008, color, 78 minutes
Over the past four decades, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered more than
50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A
Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his
tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars
as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life
unfolds. Winner of the SXSW, Philadelphia, San Francisco Docs, Biograph,
Full Frame and Woodstock Film Festivals.
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Visual
Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
August 16, 7 pm
Directed by Eric Bricker, 2009, color, 83 minutes
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and
career of Julius Shulman, the worlds greatest architectural photographer,
whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream.
Mr. Shulman, who passed away last year, captured the work of nearly
every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank
Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images
epitomized the singular beauty of Southern Californias modernist
movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general
public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern
architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman
who chronicled it with his unforgettable images. Winner of the Palm
Springs, Austin Newport Beach and Lone Star International
Film Festivals.
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Handmade
Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design
September 20, 7 pm
Directed by Faythe Levine, 2008, color, 65 minutes
Handmade Nation documents the new wave of art, craft and design that
is capturing the attention of the nation. It is the feature film debut
of director, author, artist & curator Faythe Levine. Ms. Levine
traveled to 15 cities and covered more than 19,000 miles to interview
artists, crafters, makers, curators and community members. Today's craft
world has emerged as a synthesis of historical technique, punk culture,
and the DIY ethos, also influenced by traditional handiwork, modern
aesthetics, politics, feminism and art. Learn about the tightly knit
community that exists through websites, blogs, and online stores that
connect to the greater public through independent boutiques, galleries
and craft fairs. Interviews were conducted on-location in artist studios,
homes, boutiques, offices and craft fairs, giving the public an exclusive
and rarely seen look into the lives of these creative individuals.
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Life Drawing Studio
Wednesdays
9 am - noon and 6:30-9:30 pm
Nybak
Wing
$10 members, $12
nonmember
People with all levels of drawing skill are welcome. A model is provided
along with tables and some easels.
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Life Drawing Studio
Wednesday Nights 6:30 9:30, Nybak Wing
Uninstructed figure drawing sessions coordinated by Jamie Giannotti.
Life model, long and short poses. Bring your own art supplies. Tables
and some easels are available. No reservations.
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Thursday
Painters
Artists meet at inspiring locations throughout the county each Thursday,
9:30 a.m. through lunch.
Discussion and critique of art is included. Bring your own supplies
and a bag lunch.
Email artmom5@gmail.com
for locations and dates.
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Family Art!
Three Saturdays 14 pm
July 24, August 14 and August 28
For kids of all ages! Come enjoy an afternoon of creativity. See art,
make art, and share art with each other. From sun prints, to collages;
painting to clay, you will be provided with the materials to experiment
and try new ways to express yourself. If you have family visiting, or
kids bored with the same old, same old, bring them to the Museum for
an afternoon of family time.
Members $3, nonmembers $5.

Since 1992 Integrated
Arts for the Classroom has offered workshops
Demonstrating how the arts relate to the values of a culture
Integrating the arts with other subjects in the curriculum through
hands-on music, dance, theater and visual arts
Based on California curriculum content standards and assessment
rubrics
Contact bethmott@charter.net or call 8055437072 for information.
Dr. Bernice Loughran-Nicholson, Beth Mott and Susane Rotalo, Coordinators
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Bus Trip to the deYoung Museum
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Join us on a fabulous trip to San Francisco to see Masterpieces
from the Musée dOrsay: The Birth of Impressionism
at the de Young, the only museum in the world to present two consecutive
special exhibitions from the Musée dOrsay in Paris. Ticket
price includes roundtrip travel on luxury motorcoach, entrance to the
Museum and an audio tour headset so you can enjoy the exhibition at
your own pace. An informative lecture and reading materials on Impressionism
and the Musee dOrsay will be presented during the ride north.
Convenient pick up stops beginning in Morro Bay at 7 am to Paso Robles
and returning by 10 pm at the lastest. Deadline to register is August
1, 2010. Visa and MasterCard accepted. $100 Members, $115 Nonmembers.
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